You don't have a high speed Internet connection??

[DuckSlayer1017]

I'm not an expert by any means so this may be somewhat wrong. DSL is over the phone line but is limited by how far you are from a hub. Speeds are slow like 3mbps. T1 uses the phone lines but is not limited by distance. We get 1.5 to 3 mbps for speed on the T1. T1 lines are what a lot of businesses used to use before all the nice high speed stuff. I do know that they can add more T1 connections to increase the speed, but the cost goes up a lot.

 

[ultrarunner]

Compared to other civilized countries, USA high speed Internet access is in the Dark Ages. Availability completely depends on geography.

Pretty much... I'm always amazed how every little hamlet for 3 farm houses on mountain tops in the alps has fiber internet... also how perfect their cell phone service is... when I call friends there who only have cell it is like they are next door... my own work cell is not usable half the time and this is in the heart of the SF Bay Area.

Washington has been a special problem for me...

I am literally 10 minutes from the steps of the State Capital in Olympia and no cell, DSL or Comcast service.

Had to move heaven and earth and commit to a $300 per month data only plan to get Comcast to consider me... looks like it might just happen after 10 years.

My tenant said they were moving without it... so I put it in and the week Comcast approved tenant gave me notice to move...

 

[Zerk]

Wildblue satelite here. Its ok, but data limits suck.

If you want to live in the country, you are most likely not going to have high speed.

 

[Pete Judd]

T-1 is 1.54 mbs. not 1.54 mBs.

 

[ultrarunner]

I did the satellite for a tenant... spent $1500 taking out trees...

Next tenant wanted HD Satellite which requires 3 sources... had all the trees marked "I" was suppose to take out... lowest big for 12k.

Don't know what people expect... no promises or misrepresentations on my part.

In fairness... the last tenant contacted Comcast who said no problem and as the date approached came back and said simply not possible!!!

Rather than blame Comcast... the family make my life H*ll saying no one can live in the idyllic park like setting in a magnificent home without Comcast!!!

I have never live in a home with Cable or Satellite... simply don't care enough to spend the money... I do have 1.3M DSL!

 

[k0ua]

T1 is an old but extremely reliable technology from the 1960's. A symmetrical (same up and down speed) 1.544 Meg connection T-1's can be bonded together usually up to 8 T-1s for a 12 Meg symmetrical connection. Extremely reliable, and somewhat expensive by home consumer standards.

DSL or (Digital Subscriber Line) is offered by your phone company over copper based facilities. (the DSLAM'S Digital Subscriber Line Acces Multiplexer may be fiber fed) DSL can go as fast as 100 Meg Asymmetrical connections. but that is extremely short distances from the DSLAM. 25 or 50 meg down with up to 8 Meg up are realistic speeds, although for long distances from the DSLAM, the speeds are often not much over 3Meg or even 1.5 meg down and some smaller number upload speed. The further away you are from the DSLAM the slower you will get. Why not just build a nice DSLAM just outside your door? Sure man, just for you.. be happy to. just give me a million dollars and I will build one inside your house. All you need to do is pay for that 1 million dollars of equipment. Oh, you say you have a neighbor or 2 within range.. sure they can help pay for it.:laughing:

Hey I got a big ole fiber real close to my house!. OK. I have a big ole gasoline pipeline going by my house.. I guess I will just "tap in" to that. Uh, huh. Having a fiber going by you front yard means squat about giving you service. Just like having an 750KV power line going by your house means squat. I can assure you that a big point to point fiber going by a big business that was to buy a ton of broadband does not mean squat either. Even there the money is not there to get the fiber cut, and all of the expensive equipment that would be required to break out service even for them from a 10GIG DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplex) fiber circuit. Talk about drinking from a firehose..

Now if you want a 10Gig Ethernet connection over fiber, well I used to sell those. I could make you a deal on that. You got $10,000 a month? I could fix you right up. Well not anymore. I don't work for the phone company now. But I know who to call if you need that 10Gig connection.

So anyway I hope these tidbits of info helped a bit. I have 25Meg down 5Meg up here from the local cable company. I could have 75Meg for an additional $10 per month. but I cant find any use for more than the 25Meg I have now.

 

[MF283]

I know this site was terrible to be on with dialup, went the Verizon route & it's enjoyable now, to far out for cable & satellite is way to high.

May have the brains check into the Skynet thingy.

Ronnie

 

[MossRoad]

... It's miserable, but at least it's expensive :laughing:...

A almost spit my root beer! Too funny! :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

We now have Skynet at the new house. Seems to work reasonably well

Isn't Skynet the network from the Terminator movies?

 

[MossRoad]

In all seriousness, due to my work and my children's on-line school books, one of the reason's we've held off from building on our rural property is NO internet except satellite, which I won't do. There may be some wireless service out there now, as I see some signs on the sides of the roads in the area. But cell signal is one bar down in a hole, nothing up on the hill, there's a phone line, but no DSL, no cable, no nothin'!